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Essay heading: Thoughts on Tania Modleski's "Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film"
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I think she would not find these so-
called "for women, by women" films beneficial towards the
ending stereotypes.
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and Gender in Popular Film," discusses how popular film
perpetuates stereotypes of black women. Some controlling
images of black women include: the mammy, the jezebel, and
the sapphire. While Modelski doesn't analyze the sapphire
stereotype, she does use Whoppi Goldberg's past film roles as
examples of the nurturing and maternal mammy and the over-
sexualized jezebel...
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